Re: bootstra.tos broken on 68040/68060 real hardware

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Hi Michael,

On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 at 14:08, Michael Schmitz <[email protected]> wrote:

> The vfat.ko module would also be needed then. I would have thought that's
> already in the initrd though.
>
I had to pull: fat.ko, msdos.ko, nls_cp437.ko and nls_ascii.ko from the
Debian 12 ISO's own linux-image-6.1.0-9-m68k.deb plus pata_falcon.ko and
libata.ko from its cdrom initrd.gz

> Try loading that module explicitly and see what log messages you get. I
> don't remember having to use any special module options.
>
Well, me neither, on 2.2.25. ;-)

However I have bumped into another issue: in 2.4.4.6 a breaking change was
introduced for my 1GiB GEMDOS partition: bytes per logical sector can be at
most 4096 bytes (memory page size) so my 16K logical sectors are rejected
by the kernel. So currently, one can mount only a 256 MB GEMDOS partition
at most.

Perhaps I'll try to mount an ext2 partition from FreeMiNT. :)

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr">Hi Michael,<div><br></di=
v><div><span style=3D"background-color:transparent">On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 at =
14:08, Michael Schmitz &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=
=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:</span></div></div><div clas=
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    <p>The vfat.ko module would also be needed then. I would have
      thought that&#39;s already in the initrd though.=C2=A0</p></div></blo=
ckquote><div>I had to pull:=C2=A0fat.ko, msdos.ko, nls_cp437.ko and nls_asc=
ii.ko from the Debian 12 ISO&#39;s own linux-image-6.1.0-9-m68k.deb plus pa=
ta_falcon.ko and libata.ko from its cdrom initrd.gz</div><blockquote class=
=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rg=
b(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
    <p>Try loading that module explicitly and see what log messages you
      get. I don&#39;t remember having to use any special module options.</=
p></div></blockquote><div>Well, me neither, on 2.2.25. ;-)</div><div><br></=
div><div>However I have bumped into another issue: in 2.4.4.6 a breaking ch=
ange was introduced for my 1GiB GEMDOS partition: bytes per logical sector =
can be at most 4096 bytes (memory page size) so my 16K logical sectors are =
rejected by the kernel. So currently, one can mount only a 256 MB GEMDOS pa=
rtition at most.=C2=A0</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps I&#39;ll try to mou=
nt an ext2 partition from FreeMiNT. :)</div></div><div><br></div><span clas=
s=3D"gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_=
signature"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><a href=3D"http://mikro.atari.org" target=
=3D"_blank">http://mikro.atari.org</a></div></div></div></div>
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